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August or September, often followed by n
series of smaller crashes or suspension of
specie payments in late autumn or early
winter. That is, the existing weakness did
not show itself till their city. banks were
called on to cash out to the western CORE
spondents. But of late the currents seem
to have changed their seasons."
Only days investigation in Wall
street Is needed to explain another fact
why the rate Of interest has declined so
much in recent years. There has been q
great increase in the volume Of currency,
it is true; but that is not the main reason,
for our usual experience has been that
prices advanced at least Mt equal pace
with the advance OF currency volume, and
so the rate of interest was rather increased
than diminished by redundant currency.
The key fact is that an improved system,
a higher civilization, dispenses with the
use Of currency in large transactions
money Is only the small change Of bust
ness. In the good old tines the
farmer, on the line Of the Wabash and
Erie canal for instance, hauled his wheat
to the canal warehouse and sold it for
cash; the grain merchant shipped it to
Toledo and received his cash; so the Toledo
man had to have cash from his consignee
in New York, and the village merchant
ON the Wabash in his turn brought the
cash back TO New York when he came for
goods. Now the grain factor in the west
loads train of cars and deposits the
freight certificates in the bank of the rail-
road town; the banker can telegraph the
credit to New York, and the merchant
having ordered his goods by sample, they
may be, and often are, on their way west
before the wheat reaches New York. This
Is but one Of many reasons for the lower
rates of interest and the facts mentioned
by Mr.. Brehm.
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Gle anwering the question, Why am | a
pagan?
When Kearney was in New York six
years ago Wong challenged him to de-
bate ON the Chinese question, and the
former refused with insults. The man
DARN grew angry and challenged Kearney
to fight with weapons. No reply was
made and Kearney soon left for Cali
fornia Now the mandarin is more eager
than ever for public debate and offers
to prove all that Dennis says untrue;
that the Chinese make good citizens; that
they do not eat rats; that they are clearly
and live well as soon as they get money,
and that they are as good material for
American citizens as any foreigners.
Kearney's last reported exploit in New
York was to make n tour of the Chinest
quarter in Mott street.
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Americans because of his big hos
telry, the Royal hotel, B!ackfriars.
There are those who say that his
experience as landlord will be of great
use to him in keeping up the Inequalities
of his office. There is little sneering at
him because Of his occupation, however,
even in ariStocratic English circles, for he
is an accomplished linguist, member of
half dozen learned societies and some
fifteen city guilds, and is an excellent
speaker. In politics he is a Liberal
Unionst.
The duties of lord mayor of London are
manifold. lie is a general of militia, an
admiral Of the port Of London, a chief
Judge Of the city, cOnservator Of the
river Thames, etc, etc.
The salary of the lord mayor amounts
to $4,000, and includes a princely resi-
dencc at the Mansion house. He is ex-
pected, however, to spend at least as much
more out of his own pocket in entertain
ments during his term.
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CipIe firs
CAGE FOR BUILDING LEVER.

There are three main piers to this bridge
the Fife pier, the Inch Garvie pier and
Queensberry pier, and upon each OF these
are built huge cantilevers stretching both
ways. The Fife pier was built by means
of dams, but the other piers had to be
built by aid of wrought iron caissons,
which resemble huge buckets some seventy
feet in diameter and fifty to sixty feet
high Everything except the rolling Of
the steel plates is done on the spot, and
the engines which are used, steam and
hydraulic, are numbered by the hundred.
The bridge crosses the Forth at point
where it begins to widen rapidly into the
great firth or isthmus; thence the firth
extends fifty miles to the sea, attaining q
breadth of fifteen miles. The Forth is the
third in size of the rivers of Scotland, no
miles in length and noted for curious
bends and links, which form beautiful
peninsulas. The most remarkable series
of these is called the 'links of Forth"
between Alloa and Stirling, the distance
in q straight line being six miles, while
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-11-05
TWO NEW SCHOOLS.
CLARK UNIVERSITY AND PRATT'S
TECHNICAL INSTITUTE.

Tho Corner Stone OF the Former Recently
Lsid-The Latter Just About Ready for
Occupancy-Two Rich Mon Who Use
Their Money Well.
Industrial experiments are "all the
rage" The thinking class OF men are
everywhere taking deep interest in the
question: How shall the laborer get a
larger share Of what he produces and at
the same time increase production so that
capital may realize fair protiy AT first
this general movement took the form OF
cooperation in buying and selling, and the
success OF the Rochedale experiment in
England has created scores Of limitations.
Next there was an attempt Mt co-opera-
ton in productions; but few successes were
secured. For some years past the move
ment has been towards cooperation in
living and training the young in skilled
labor. For the former we have the ia
milistere In Belgium, the Social palace"
at Guise, in France; Saltaire, as set up by
Sir Titus Salt in England; the town Of
Pullman, near Chicago, and Vineland,
N. j.; while in the latter line we find in
dustral and training schools all over the
country. Some extremely interesting ex-
perimcnts have recently been made in the
south, where the eXperimenters have the
great advantage of a clear field; the
negroes had not developed any system OF
skilled industry, and their docllity made
them splendid raw MATERIAL" so to
speak, for benevolent enterprises. Among
many successful establishments of this
kind we will only mention the Industrial
college ut Orangeburg, $. c., where col
ored men learn many different trades and
colored girls are made skillful seam
stresses and housekeepers, while both
sexes are educated in books; and all this
by cooperation and good management at
a surprisingly small cost-for less than
the cost Of a years board at any school in
the north.
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Stephen Salisbury, ex-Attorney General
Charles Devens, United States Senator
George f. Hoar, congressman William
w. Rice, DIR. Joseph Sargent, Col. John
ID. Washburu, City Solicitor Frank p.
Goulding and George Swan. The Massa-
chusetts legislature made these gentlemen
q corporation, and In May they organized
by the choice of Mr.. Clark as president
and Col. John ID. Washburn secretary.
The work Of building was at once begun.
Mr.. Clark's intention Is to have the
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Mountains of tho West.

The Sierra Nevada range might be called
q continuation of the Cascade mountains,
but those are of volcanic origin, and the
Sierra Nevadas are granite. though traces
Of volcanic action are often found on the
TANKS and base. It commences at Mount
Shasta, IA, 400 feet high, and runs in q
southerly direction to TETON Pass, where
it joins the Coast range not far from
Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in
the United States south CT Alaska. There
are but few passes over these mountains,
and the Pacific slope Is very steep, tho
Central Pacific road descending Q, 800 feet
in eighty miles. Eagle.
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It Seems rs IL 1t Were Quite Given Over
Dead and Gone-Ths Man who Guards
Shipments OF Specie.
Wall street on Saturday afternoon, says
an occasional New York correspondent Of
this paper, presents peculiar aspect-one
might almost believe it given up to ghosts
of dead and gone flnanciers Promptly on
the stroke Of IL the fierce fight Of the
bulls and bears ceases; there Is truce
till Monday; brokers rush from their
offices to the cars and a~ Off for their
firesides, and the uproar OF the exchange
dies away into u calm so profound that il
IL oppressive. At the custom house and
sub-treasury, however, there is some work
that must be done, and the proper clerks
work on till the usual closing hour, for
Uncle Sam insists upon having all his
accounts straight as single every
night. About 2 p. m. one may wit
ness some impressive scenes in the sub
treasury building. Indeed, the building
itself is impressive; its solid stone and iron
structure, its broad granite steps and
heavy columns seem the realization of
security and government power, and when
one remembers that in its vaults lie any
where from $50, 600, coo to $3.50, 900, OC0 in
gold, according to the season, the contem-
plation strikes the spectator with sort of
awe. On entering the building the awe is
not lessened by seeing the messengers
enter with great books" of greenbacks
and the bags OF gold going out, as one
may see them almost any day at this
season.
On the occasion Of our visit the ship
ment was light. "Only 800, 900 on this
truck, said the solid and slightly griz-
zled George w. Brehm, who had it in
charge. He sat on one end of the truck
and leaned against the valuable bags with
an easy indifference born Of familiarity,
for he has been here and hereabouts forty
years, and connected with the National
Bank of the Republic for thirty-six
years. There Were four sacks of what
seemed double canvas; in each one were
five smaller sacks and in each small sack
IS. 900 in the pure ilucus"-half eagles,
eagles and double cagles-on its way to
the Union bank OF Chicago. And while
Mr.. Brehm told us this and waited for
the man of muscle to wheel the truck
away, the artist caught him on the fly.
"Coin and currency do not follow the
lines Of outgo and income at the same
seasons they did few years ago." said
Mr.. Brehm; 'they go and come more
regularly through the year, and here of
late they go and do not come. The west
ern people have found way Of keeping
them out there. Formerly the rulc was
that money began to flow from New York
to the interior soon after wheat harvest,
and the volume steadily increased till
winter-'to move the crops, as the saying
was; then in the spring it flowed steadily
back to New York till there was glut in
the summer. Hence the fact that all the
great panics set in with a grand crash in
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-11-05
Through sleepers 10 New Orleans.

The illinois Central X. II. will run q
Through Sleeper TO New Orleans, leaving
Sioux City at ) % p. m. Tuesday Nov, 10
Dubuque Wednesday q. m, Nov. 1G
Round trip tourists tickets to New Orlean'
will be on sale Nov. Is, and parties f"i
Florida, Texas, California, jackson. Trnu.
Miss, Hammond, New Orleans, .J.na'rp'
and Lake Charles, Louisiana. should tsks
advantage of this Through Sleeper Sud
apply at once to the undersigned At Man
chester, lows, for sleeping car herths
rates &c. J. r MERRY,
Gen. W.s', Pass. Agt.
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adopted n constitution which all the CAPT
talists of the state denounced as commun-
istic. They also had influence enough to
get congress to pass the bill shutting out
Chinese immigrants, and by that time
Kearney had got u good Office and made
some money aud was living easy. Now
he has issued from his retirement with an
address, which he has delivered several
times in the east, charging that the anti
Chinese immigrant law is not enforced,
and demanding the passage of the strin-
gent measure introduced by Senator
Mitchell.
Wong Chin Foo, the Chinaman who had
to pay duty of $50 on going into Canada
the other day, has met kearney and has
repeatedly challenged him to public de-
bate which the latter has contemporary
refused. They came face to face the other
day, however, in The New York World
editorial room, were introduced and had
very heated discussion, almost coming
to blows. Wong Chin Foo is remark
able character. A Chinaman of high rank,
he is thoroughly Americanized Though he
has lapsed into paganism), was natural
lied many years ago, is master or Eng
lish, a contributor to various American
periodicals and was editor of The Chi
nese American, which died for want
of patronage. When Wong first came
to America he was Christian, and he
quickly captivated high and low in
Rochester, N. ", where he settled, made
speeches in religious meetings, and was
quite the lion of the hour. 1t was even
given out that he purposed entering the
pulpit. But Bret Harte's conviction that
For ways that are dark
And tricks that are vain
The heather Chinee is peculiar
,y,, ,ayar botfa i11uStrnta1 than in the
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-11-05
KEARNEY AND WONG.
Sand Lot Orator and Civilized Pagan
Meet In New York.

Dennis Kcarncy has bodied up again,
but not ut all serenely. Ten or dozen
years ago he was the great notabili,y Of
the Pacific coast, the orator of the sand
lots, the drayman turned statesman. His
speeches We're quoted and laughed at all
over the country, and his constant refer
ence TO the ''lccherous bondholders" (he
pronounced il lcecherous and after
ward explained that 1t meant like q
leechro became a national byword.
And yet this rude, uncouth man was o
power. For there was discomfort in San
Francisco and many thousands OF unem-
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-11-05

birth. He was
naturalized TWEEN
ty-two years ago,
however, and has
long been an al
derman, was at
one time sheriff Of
London and Mid
dlesex, and has
filled other offices
of trust and
honor.
His name is
Polydore de Key
ser, and he is well
lynptyn IN many
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-11-05

ployed, and with
one accord they
decided that the
cause Of their
misery was "Chi-
nese cheap labor.
So Dennis Kear-
ney, the Rev. Kali
loch and others
organized q labor
ers' party, which
held the balance
Of power, got con-
troll of the state
cons titutional
4
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-11-05
A BIG BRIDGE.

The Huge Structure that Is Being Bull
Over the Forth.
Three thousand five hundred men are
now working daily on one of the largest
bridges ever built over the Firth Of Forth
in Scotland 1t is of the cantilever type,
which is familiar in this country in the
bridges at Niagara and st. Johns, n. b.
The construction of cantilever bridges in
Great Britain is comparatively recent, the
Americans having taken hold of the prin-
cple first
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-11-05
London's New Lord MAYOR.

Londons new lord mayor is the first
Catholic who has ever held that position.
But he is Freemason, and most Catho-
lies will tell you that the two are quito
incompatible. He will be sworn in Nov.
8. Perhaps rs strange Il fact as his reli-
gion is his nationality; for the new lord
mayor of the great English capital is not
an Englishman at MI, but Belgian by
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-11-05

cas- @ OF w ong.
The story Of his
exposure is not b
pretty one, and so
we will not repeat
it. Wong had to
leave Rochester,
however, opd he
shortly thereafter
announced him
self n pa ga n
again. He didn't
mention his Roch-
ester experience
in his recent arti-
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-11-05

The best on eartn can truly be said OF
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that by river is
tw G I've. Tb @
Forth is formed
by the confluence
of the Duchray
and Dhu on the
northeast slope of
the noted noun
tain Ben Lomond.
Thence east and
southeast to the
sea the river flows
40 miles, though
the distance in n
straight line is
but ninety miles.
The tide sets up
seventy miles to
Stirling. Through
all its upper
course the stream
flows through
scenes of gran
deur AMI beauty,
and as it widens
towards the sea
it is of great COM
mercial import
aOca being nayi-
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gable for steamers of 300 tons to the end Of
the firth and some distance above for
smaller steamers. Kincardine is an i'm
portant town at the head Of the firth,
which is bordered on the north by the
counties Of Clackmannan and Fife Snd
on the south by those Of Lnlithc COW,
Edinburgh and Hsddipgton
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-11-05

When man attempts TO warm his hands
over a hotel register II Is high time to in.
quire into his mental condition.-HoteI
NAIL
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Drop into our office when you are In
town, and see the new edition OF "Our
Family Physician"
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CHICAcO. ROCK ISLANp g. PACIFIC R'Y

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It's bridges are SOLO
all
valuable Its practice,
Of
CARS DINING CARS
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was never better illustrated than in tn.
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SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
A TIME WHEN WALL STREET is
ABSOLUTELY DESERTED.

1t Seems as IL 1t Were Quite Given Over
to the Ghosts OF Financiers That Are
Dead and Gone-The Man Who Guards
Shipments OF Specie.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-10-14
TEMPERANCE READING.
A oHlLD.s TEAR.

] My home-yes. it's bright and clean, sir.
And I'll tell how Il camo TO pass;
II wasn't my work or doing at ALL
It's all duo TO that little lass.
Twas going straight down 70 hell SIR,
And all through the curse OF the drink;
How l treated poor Mary, my wife, sir,
God knows can't bear to think
didn't know as loved her
Till the wild dark night she died,
When found her lying so cold and stil
And that newborn child by her side.
The little lass, she has grown, sir
Last June she was eight years old
And what she has been to me, sir,
Can never on earth be told.
When q kid, there was no one TO mind her
But woman rs lived next door;
And she, being given TO drink, too,
Let her fail one day on the floor.
And ever since the poor creatur'
Has been lame with u crooked knee;
30 Ia often lift her up in my arms
To take her about with me.
For really loved the poor mite, sir,
And her sweet little eyes OF blue
Was as blue and as bright rs her mothers wor.
And they looked me through and through
Ohe h'Bnt was on 10 the public
I'd been drinking already-'two late
And took little May to carry her,
But couldn't walk quite straight.
"Oh, daddy, don't gow she whispered,
But quickened my drunken pace,
Aud said mot another word young I'm
Or I'll give you slap in the face"
was brutal, sir-I know Il;
Bui the devil was in me then,
And when he gets hold OF us with the drink
We are only brutes-not men.
And the little lass she wor quiet
But felt hot tear fall;
And II seemed TO burn right into my hand.
Though she wiped 1t on with her shawl
Straight into my soul IL entered
1t melted my hardened heart;
So said:i 'Tll go home, lassie."
That night made new start.
Now, every morning and evening
kneel and with heart sincere
bless my God for saving soul
by the touch OF little ones tear
IRE Qviper
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coholic poison. In preferences 20 q
water which chemical analysis shows
to be the purest In Europe They then
rail at temperance fanatics running
their health for an ideal What won
der that we live TO recount the dam
gers through which we have passed.
Yesterday we met another Ameri
can, and the inevitable temperance
topic coming up-even in Italy-this
gentleman said: 81 am an abstainer
at home, but used wines in South
ern Europe from February to the
last of May. This use brought on
very uncomfortable rash or skin dis
ease, which still torments me. / have
abandoned all wines for the last three
weeks" said he, ''and hope in due time
to get the poison out of my system"
Do not infer that wine Is the only
cause of the rash. A friend, who was
suffering from this disease, called upon
| physician in Naples who is pro-
lessor in the University of Naples, and
member of the leading scientific so"
cieties of Great Britain. He told her
not to use any red wine, and to use the
light white wine only sparingly. She
replied that she used no wine at all.
"Ah!" said he, somewhat surprised, for
he assumed that she used wine; but
Immediately added, with evident salts
faction: $50 much the better" This
answer shows the opinion of one of the
best authorities in Italy upon the neces-
sity of using wine in that country.
1t is only fair to ada that while al
most every one drinks wine in Italy,
intoxication is less common than with
us. This is probably due to the weak
ness OF the wine used, TO the fact that
this weak wine is drank slowly at the
table in connection with food, and to
the lethargic life of the people of
Southern Europe and Asia. But with
the awakening of the new national life
and the increased activity of the peo-
pie in Italy, drunkenness is on the in
crease. Saloons without food, but
with drinking bars and strong liquors,
are being introduced. Instead of the
use of wines proving barrier against
stronger drinks, under the new pres
sure it opens the door to them. Excess
sive drinkers are increasing. and are
transmitting depraved appetites to
their children. The most thoughtful
and conscientious people view with
alarm the late increase of intemper-
ance. While no evangelical church in
Italy disciplinos its members for mod
crate drinking, some of the most con-
secrated Christians are adopting total
and the clcarest headed
say that the liquor problem will yet
perplex Italy as well as England and
W. BaShtord, ia N. Y
Voice.
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OLD SAWS IN RHYME.

TIE better the day is the better the deed;
The bitter is oftentimes bitten indeed.
Accidents happen in families best;
"ris very vile bird that will foul its own nest.
A brain that is idle's the DEVILS workshop:
Go farther and fare worse; froth comes 10 the
top,
Two cooks better have than one doctor. Won
know;
Beautys but skin deep; his cake is all doueh,
Cheerful spirit toll sweetens; all things have
an end;
Be sure OF a new ere you cut an old friend.
Dead mems shoes fit well; circumstances change
cases;
Practice makes perfect; stern chase long
chase is.
1t makes all the difference whose OK is gored:
Over his head hangs Damocles' sword.
BE quicker than lightning; but not in a hurry:
horse of different color; don't worry.
Be sure that your sins will some day find you
out;
Take always the trick when you linger in doubt
TITS man who proposes and God who disposes:
Find needle In hay-stack; his bed isn't roses.
No rose without thorns; give the devil his due.
Six of one is of tother u half dozen, too.
Fingers were made before forks; fool or l5nave:
Matches in Heaven are made; a close shave.
Poets are born and not made; up to snuff;
Sufficient to-day is the evil thereof
Who won't when he may when he will shall
have nay;
Experience is a dear teacher to pay
H. &. Dodge, IN G00daps Sun,